Sun-AM: 30 miles (4:33) Bear Creek to Intemann to Manitou to NNC and back through the Garden

Total: 166 miles (22:58)

It's kind of funny to look back at the week and realize that I only did two doubles this week. I guess that's just the way it goes sometimes. All in all, it was a pretty good week considering the crappy weather in Nebraska and the fact that I basically took Thursday off. The weekend's runs were a great first step in attaining 100 mile fitness over the next month. I hope to follow up that 6hr run with a 7hr run next week and then two 8hr runs before tapering. Obviously, I need to keep my eye on my shin, though.

The ideal in the Lieh-Tzu is a state, not of withdrawal, but of heightened perceptiveness and responsiveness in an undifferentiated world. My mind concentrated and my body relaxed, bones and flesh fused completely, I drifted with the wind East or West, like a leaf from a tree or a dry husk, and never knew whether it was the wind that rode me or I that rode the wind. -The Book of Lieh-Tzu